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Cultures
Languages:
1.english
2.fijian
Religion:
1.christianity
2.hindu
Native Dish:
Name: Carne en jocon
Recipe: Marinated meat

Note: This dish is known also as carne en adobo.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup peanut oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic
2 red or green bell peppers, seeded and chopped
1 hot red or green pepper, seeded and chopped
3 pounds lean boneless beef chuck, cut into 1-inch cubes
10-ounce can Mexican green tomatoes with liquid
4 medium tomatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 bay leaf
2 cloves
1/2 teaspoon oregano
Salt
Pepper
1/2 cup beef stock
2 stale tortillas (or 2 tablespoons white flour or 2 tablespoons cornmeal)
Directions:
    1. Heat oil in heavy saucepan. Sauté onion, garlic, and peppers until the onion is soft.
    2. Add the meat and the other ingredients, except the tortilla (or flour or cornmeal). The liquid should barely cover the meat. Add a little more stock if necessary. Cover and simmer gently until the beef is tender, about 2 hours.
    3. If using tortillas, soak them in cold water and crumble like bread crumbs. If using white flour or cornmeal, mix with a little cold water. Add to the casserole and simmer uncovered until the sauce is thickened.
One Celebration or Festival: Chrismas eve (Nothce buence) fire crakers and then have a fiest!
Literacy Rate:
USA: 97%
Country:93.7
Social Customs:When meeting shake hands or inbrace for the men for women grab just below the elbow or kisson the cheek. They normally eat three meals a day if tey can efford it they almost always have tortias in every meal. They vist often invited or notand they are always very polite.
Recreation: They like to play soccer (there national sport),baketball, volleyball, they also like to watch T.V to pass time and they visit friends very often!
Government
Type: Republic
Leader: Preident Rata Josefa
Independence:
When: 10 october 1970
From: Whom:from the UK
Economics
Monetary Unit:Fijian dollar
Exchange Rate:1.7313
GDP:
USA: $39,676
Country: 6,200
Major Industries:
1.tourism
2.surger
Major Trading Partner:
Imports:singipore, australia, NZ, china
Exports:australia, UK, Japan, samoa, tonga
Life Expectancy:
Men:67.6 years
Women:72.76 years
Geography
Climate:tropical, hot, humid,in lowlands: cooler in highlands
Natural Resource:
1.wood
2.patrolem
3.nickle
Physical Features:
1.volcano tajumuico is the highest mountain incenteral americia.
2.the pacific lowlands are exelent farmland.
Environmental Issues:deforestationin the peten rainforest, soil erosian , water population.